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Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity : Adoption and Belonging in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark / by Sigalit Ben-Zion.
LIBRA HV875.58.S34 B46 2014
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Van Pelt Library HV875.58.S34 B46 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ben-Zion, Sigalit.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adoptees--Scandinavia.
- Adoptees.
- Intercountry adoption--Scandinavia.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Interethnic adoption--Scandinavia.
- Interethnic adoption.
- Group identity--Scandinavia.
- Group identity.
- Ethnicity--Scandinavia.
- Ethnicity.
- Nationalism.
- Scandinavia.
- Nationalism--Scandinavia.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 265 pages ; ǂc 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2014]
- Summary:
- Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are home to more than ninety thousand transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. Ben-Zion seeks to answer a variety of questions in this multi-sited ethnography, including: How do transcolor adoptees define their social boundaries and negotiate their social position in relation to ethnic Scandinavians and non-European immigrants? What are the different discourses and ideologies imposed on them by these social actors? She provides a unique perspective on how these transcolor adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersections of racial, ethnic, class, family, and national lines. The book provides fertile ground for comparison by examining their cultural identity in a global context of cultural assimilation, integration, loyalty, membership, familial, ethnic and national belonging, and the experience of having a visible racial identity in a predominantly white environment. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Anthropology of Transcolor Adoptees: Subject, Theory, and Method 1
- 2 Stockholm Fieldwork: From. St. Eriksplan to Rinkeby 23
- 3 "Living in the Twilight Zone" 41
- 4 "No One Is More Swedish Than Me!" 61
- 5 "Love Is Above Culture, Above Blood" 79
- 6 "It's Like Taking a Cat and Raising It Like a Dog" 97
- 7 "I Didn't Feel Norwegian Enough to Wear the National Costume" 117
- 8 "I Am Comfortable with the Feeling of Being White!" 139
- 9 "Going to the Whiteness" 161
- 10 They Can't Afford to Stop Imagining 181
- 11 The Construction of Imaginary Homelands 193
- 12 Conclusions 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137480644
- 1137480645
- OCLC:
- 882738797
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